And in the end, after the Iraqi Army had fled home, he recommended ending the war after five days, although (as intelligence would later show) half of Saddam's lethal Republican Guard had escaped with its tanks back into Iraq, where they would help crush Shiite and Kurdish uprisings and assure Saddam's hold on power.
But then I remembered what I'd seen when he bent over to load the propane tanks back into the car the thick belt of scars ringing his waist and the zipper where the doctors had cut his back open and the story began to make sense.
After dusk, when I saw it, the window reflects the tank back at you, doubling the piece into a shark gantlet.
In heavy rains, residents said, the septic tanks back up into the streets, and the roads become impassable, so that the school buses will not come to pick up the children.
Then the tank fell back into its murk, got worse, stank up, and became, well, completely, utterly, fantastically murky.
When their tanks rolled back into the Alawite neighbourhood, the women disappeared with them".
I was in a taxi and saw a line of firing tanks moving back into my town.
So far he has sensibly held the tanks back from rolling deep into Gaza's seething urban districts and refugee camps.
The ports are offloading fuel, putting petrol, whose price had risen from $8 a tank to $200, back into the pumps at a quarter of its pre-war cost (see article).
Long-haul truckers are up in arms over a decision by United States Customs and Border Protection to require importers to estimate the quantity and value of the chemical residue that clings to the sides and bottoms of reusable tank trailers coming back into the country after being unloaded in Canada or Mexico.
